What is Inklings?

[WoodpeckerWoody]

Red Seal Pictures
Directed By Dave Fleischer.
Produced By Max Fleischer

but more I don't know. Could some one explain. :confused:

[Ray Pointer]

This was a novelty film series of animated hand sketch gag cartoons and cut apart animation rearranged from one thing into the other. It is similar to the ANIMATED HAIR cartoons by Marcus, also released through the Red Seal Company. An example of INKLINGS is on MORE TREASURES FROM AMERICAN ARCHIVES. Is this the source of your inquiry?

[Bugsmer]

Inklings is a very innovative series of early Flesicher films, using optical illusions and other tricks to amaze the viewer. They would draw pictures that, when turned upside down, might be a completely different picture, even though it's all one drawing (like the famous picture of the young woman who becomes old when you turn it upside down). They are great visual feats, and if you ever chance into one of them, I strongly recommed that you see it.

[Ray Pointer]

Ditto-ditto. Is there an echo in here?

[cpdavison]

I don't mean to over-work the echo chamber, but are these, then, similar to the "Animated Hair" catoons that were also Red Seal releases? Or is it the same series? I don't recall the Fleischers getting any screen credits on the Hair cartoons, so I'm guessing it's a different series..?

(It also sounds like one of the segments from Max's "News Sketches" film.)

Craig D.

[WoodpeckerWoody]

This was a novelty film series of animated hand sketch gag cartoons and cut apart animation rearranged from one thing into the other. It is similar to the ANIMATED HAIR cartoons by Marcus, also released through the Red Seal Company. An example of INKLINGS is on MORE TREASURES FROM AMERICAN ARCHIVES. Is this the source of your inquiry?

No, bcdb.com.

[Ray Pointer]

INKLINGS have been on deposit with The Library of Congress for decades, and were recently restored, and released on the previously mentioned DVD. As for the ANIMATED HAIR series, this was a series that RED SEAL distributed through the Inkwell Studio. The Fleischer brothers had no direct hand in making them, as this was done by the cartoonist known as "Marcus." I"m not clear as to which came first, but INKLINGS is similar in concept, but usings a variety of techniques, where the ANIMATED HAIR is consistently the rearanging of cutout parts of a drawn portrait to transform it into someone else.